11 December 2017 Introduction to Philosophy

11 December 2017

            Print your last name next to a selection that you will present for two minutes on Monday. First, find a selection that does not have anyone presenting that particular selection.

Second, if every selection has at least one person presenting you may collaborate with that first person and print your name next to theirs to assist them.

Every selection should have at least one person presenting if possible to review before the Final.

By Friday, email me (msmith) any presentation materials that you need to project for the class on Monday.

Part 9 Moral Problems

A Defense of Abortion
Judith Jarvis Thomson

On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion
Mary Anne Warren

Why Abortion Is Immoral
Don Marquis

Virtue Theory and Abortion
Rosalind Hursthouse

Famine, Affluence, and Morality
Peter Singer

Part 10: Society

Democracy
John Dewey

Letter from a Birmingham Jail
Martin Luther King Jr.

What Is a Liberal Education?
Sidney Hook

Crito
Plato

On Liberty
John Stuart Mill

Economic and Philosophic Manuscripts of 1844
Karl Marx

Part 11: Social Justice

A Theory of Justice
John Rawls

Distributive Justice
Robert Nozick

The Republic
Plato

Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes

Part 12: Art

The Republic
Plato

Poetics
Aristotle

Part 13: Life and Death

The Trolley Problem
Judith Jarvis Thomson

Phaedo
Plato

Writings
Epicurus

The Handbook
Epictetus

Part 14: The Meaning of Life

Philosophy and the Meaning of Life
Robert Nozick